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Sir Isaac Newton: Scientific Genius, Investing Fool
The physicist fell even harder than previously thought for one of the worst speculative bubbles of all time.
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Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way
Amid the South Sea bubble, the famed scientist shifted from being a prudent investor to a speculator who plunged essentially all his capital into a single stock.
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Can Fund Manager Bill Miller Use Earthquakes to Predict the Market?
The investor is hoping to develop a financial seismograph that would predict market shocks.
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Memo to China: Your Market Moves Are Doomed to Fail
The Chinese government’s attempts to keep its stock market from going down might work in the short run, but it won’t in the long run.
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Why Handel Never Went Baroque
The great composer George Frideric Handel, it seems, was a good investor to boot.
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The Extraordinary Popular Delusion of Believing What You Read
Charles Mackay and “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” got a lot wrong about investing.